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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learning analytics is an emergent field of research that aspires to use data analysis to inform decisions made on every area education, from understanding student data to build better pedagogies, target at-risk students, and to assess whether programs designed have been effective and should be sustained.

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Research Friday: ASU is an Important Central Hub for Nonprofit Organizations

ASU Lodestar Center

& Management Student, Arizona State University. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook. This kind of analysis fascinates me, and I think it can really help others understand what's really going on in the Arizona nonprofit sector. Like this article?

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. in Residence.

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Google Analytics vs Site Meter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It’s funny, and appropriate.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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How Small Businesses Inspire Big Businesses

Eric Jacobsen Blog

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company. Mazzeo : One recurring theme was about growth and scaling.

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6 Road Trips Reveal Critical Lessons For Business Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company. Mazzeo : One recurring theme was about growth and scaling.

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